stockˈbroker noun

A stock exchange member who buys and sells stocks or shares for clients, having been officially superseded in the British Stock Exchange, on 27 October 1986, by the broker/dealer, combining the jobs of stockbroker and stockjobber (stockbroker belt the area outside a city, esp that to the south of London, in which wealthy businessmen live)

stockˈbroking noun

stock car noun

1. A specially adapted and strengthened ordinary saloon car used for a type of racing (stock car racing) in which cars are often damaged or destroyed in collisions
2. A cattle-truck (N American)

stock company noun (N American)

1. A joint-stock company
2. A permanent repertory company attached to a theatre

stock cube noun

A cube of compressed meat, fish or vegetable extract used for making stock

stock dove noun

A dove (Columba oenas), like a small wood pigeon (so called from its habit of nesting in tree stumps or rabbit burrows, or from the erroneous supposition that it represents the ancestor of the domestic breeds)

stock exchange noun

1. A place for the buying and selling of stocks and shares
2. An association of people transacting such business
3. (with caps) the institution in London where such business is done

stock farm noun

A farm specializing in the rearing of livestock

stockˈ-farmer noun

A farmer who rears livestock

stockˈ-feeder noun

A person who fattens livestock

stock-gillˈyflower noun

An old name for the garden flower, stock

stockˈholder noun

1. Someone who holds stocks in the public funds, or in a company
2. A person who owns livestock (Aust)

stockˈhorse noun (Aust)

A horse trained for working with sheep and cattle

stockˈ-in-trade noun

1. All the goods a shopkeeper has for sale
2. Standard equipment or devices necessary for a particular trade or profession
3. A person's basic intellectual and emotional resources (often implying inadequacy or triteness)

stockˈjobber noun

1. A stock exchange member who deals only with other members (in some special group of securities), this job having been abolished in the British Stock Exchange on 27 October 1986, with the introduction of the job of broker/dealer, combining the jobs of stockbroker and stockjobber
2. A stockbroker (US)
3. An unscrupulous speculator

stockˈjobbery noun

stockˈjobbing noun

stockˈlist noun

A list of stocks and current prices regularly issued

stockˈlock noun

A lock with wooden case

stockˈman noun

1. A man in charge of livestock (esp Aust)
2. A storeman (US)

stock market noun

1. A stock exchange
2. Stock exchange business

stockˈpile noun

An accumulated reserve supply (also transitive verb)

stockˈpiling noun

Accumulating reserves, eg of raw materials

stockˈpot noun

A pot in which stock for soup is made and kept

stockˈpunisht adjective (Shakespeare)

Put in the stocks

stockˈ-raising noun

Breeding of stock

stock rider noun (Aust)

A herdsman on horseback

stockˈroom noun

1. A storeroom
2. A room in a hotel for the display of commercial travellers' wares

stock route noun (Aust and NZ)

A right of way for travelling stock

stock saddle noun

A type of saddle with a high pommel and low curved seat, as orig used by American cowboys

stock-stillˈ adjective and adverb

Utterly still (as a post or log)

stockˈtake noun

An act of stocktaking (also intransitive verb)

stockˈtaking noun

Inventorying and valuation of stock (also figurative)

stock whip noun

A herdsman's whip with short handle and long lash

stockˈyard noun

A large yard with pens, stables, etc, where cattle are kept for slaughter, market, etc

in (or out of) stock

Available (or not available) for sale

on the stocks

In preparation but unfinished

put or take stock in

To trust to, attach importance to

stockbrokers' Tudor (architecture)

Imitation Tudor

stocks and stones

Inanimate idols

take stock (of)

1. To make an inventory of goods on hand
2. To make an estimate of